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Tildes Book Club - Spring schedule (Updated Feb 2, 2:19 UTC)
The results are in, and Dispossessed was the clear favorite with many strong contenders. It looks like quite a few people are interested in participating. There was a tie for third place so we...
The results are in, and Dispossessed was the clear favorite with many strong contenders. It looks like quite a few people are interested in participating.
There was a tie for third place so we will start with four books.
Edit
We will discuss Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell in early March,
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke in Mid April,
The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin in Late May
And Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir at the end of June.We will discuss Project Hail Mary in early March
Cloud Atlas in mid April
The Dispossessed in late May
and Piranesi at the end of JuneAt that point I plan to hold a voting thread for fiction and a voting thread for nonfiction and discuss/vote on how frequently to read nonfiction. Please feel free to renominate your favorites that didn't get chosen.
I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for participating.
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It's fair to describe schizophrenia as probably mostly genetic
18 votes -
‘It’s a big vision’: are Gotham FC building a super team for the ages?
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Album of the Week #18: Portishead - Portishead
This is Album of the Week #19 ~ This week's album is Portishead - Portishead Year of Release: 1997 Genre(s): Trip Hop Country: United Kingdom Length: 50 minutes RYM | Listen! Excerpt from Vulture:...
This is Album of the Week #19 ~ This week's album is Portishead - Portishead
Year of Release: 1997
Genre(s): Trip Hop
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 50 minutes
RYM | Listen!Excerpt from Vulture:
The album makes total sense, but how does it sound? One could argue that Portishead can be more admirable in theory than in practice. Created in direct opposition to the twinned principles of quick profit and easy pleasure, it’s a masterpiece of painful rigor. With the exception of “Undenied,” the album’s exhilarations, though plentiful, are inseparable from its harrowing politics and embattled nature. Utley’s riff on “Cowboys” is fit to saw through steel; Barrow’s beat on “Elysium” counts its measures with an alarming or bomb-adjacent urgency; Gibbons’s voice, shorn of comforting accompaniments, is charged with a kind of grievous purity throughout, reaching heights of agony unheard on Dummy.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
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Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
65 votes -
What ecelebrity did to my brain
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Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll
51 votes -
Gåte – Ulveham (2024)
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Tildes Gaming Club, February 2024: Legacy
Tildes Gaming Club is a monthly space to play and discuss games that fit a loosely defined theme. I see it as a gaming counterpart to our current Album of the Week, Movie of the Week, and Book...
Tildes Gaming Club is a monthly space to play and discuss games that fit a loosely defined theme.
I see it as a gaming counterpart to our current Album of the Week, Movie of the Week, and Book Club series. Instead of everyone focusing everyone on the same game, however, we're all focused on the same core theme, and we independently choose a game (or games) that fit the theme.
To participate, play at least one game that fits the monthly theme, and talk about it here. You can make one post summarizing your game(s), or you can make multiple posts as you make your way through the game(s).
This month's theme is: Legacy
The theme is open-ended, and it’s encouraged that you interpret the theme however you like. If you need some ideas to get you started:
”Legacy” Ideas
You might play a game that…
- left an important mark on gaming history
- remains infamous today
- is noteworthy for its cultural context, especially in hindsight
- is part of an established, long-running series
- has characters that spawn multiple generations
- runs on old, outdated hardware
- was for an older operating system
- is an older/downpatched build
- requires some modernization to appreciate
- is no longer available to buy
- has the word “Legacy” in its title
My goals for the Tildes Gaming Club are the following:
- I'm hoping this can be a fun way of choosing something to play.
- I'm hoping this can bring a group/community aspect to people independently enjoying their hobby.
- I'm hoping this can yield some interesting discussions about different themes.
18 votes -
How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
12 votes -
Ultra-rapid MRI while singing and speaking
9 votes -
New Grammy category for African music: nominations ignore almost all of Africa
13 votes -
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
19 votes -
Apple Original Films’ ‘Argylle’ with C+ CinemaScore and near $17m opening isn’t cutting it at weekend box office
17 votes -
Reigning World Rally champion Kalle Rovanperä will begin his partial 2024 WRC campaign at Rally Sweden this month
8 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
30 votes -
How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State
26 votes -
Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again.
25 votes -
The US hasn't seen syphilis numbers this high since 1950
19 votes -
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2024)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
36 votes -
Pew Research data on how many countries people have travelled to
25 votes -
Julius Baer is another facepalm for Swiss banking
6 votes -
Only the Middle East can fix the Middle East – The path to a post-American regional order
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Tildes Minecraft Survival Bi-Weekly Thread
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The home-working revolution is harming younger workers: Bosses who insist on a return to the office are demonised — but turning up is better for your career
18 votes -
Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
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[SOLVED] Debugging a slow connection between local devices in only one direction
[SOLVED] ... well, this is in many ways very unsatisfying, because I have no idea why this worked, but I seem to have fixed it. Server A has two Ethernet ports, an Intel I219V and a Killer E3100....
[SOLVED]
... well, this is in many ways very unsatisfying, because I have no idea why this worked, but I seem to have fixed it.
Server A has two Ethernet ports, an Intel I219V and a Killer E3100. Several months ago, when trying to debug sporadic btrfs errors (I had my RAM installed incorrectly!), I had disabled some unused devices in BIOS, including the Killer Ethernet port.
Since I had no other ideas, and it seemed like this was somehow specific to this server, I just re-enabled the Killer port and switched the Ethernet cable to that port. I'm now getting 300 Mb/s transfers from my wireless devices to my server, exactly as expected.
I'm gonna like... go for a walk or something. Thank you so much to everyone who helped me rule out all of the very many things this could have been! I love this place, you all are so kind and supportive.
Original:
I'm trying to debug a perplexing networking situation, and I could use some guidance if anyone has any.
Here's my setup:
- UniFi Security Gateway
- UniFi Switch Lite
- Two UAPs
- Two servers, A and B, connected to the USW-Lite with GbE
- Many wireless devices, connected to the UAPs
Here's what I'm experiencing:
- Network transfers from the wireless devices to server A (as measured by iperf3 tests) are very slow. Consistently between 10 and 20 Mb/s.
- Network transfers from server A to all devices are expected speeds. 900-1000 Mb/s to server B, 350-ish Mb/s to wireless devices.
- Network transfers between server B and all devices (in both directions!) are expected speeds.
- Network transfers from the USG to server A also seem slow, which is odd. Only about 60 MB/s.
- Network transfers from the USG to server B and the wireless devices is about 300 MB/s
So, specifically network transfers from any wireless device to server A are slow, and no other connections have any issues that I can see.
Some potentially relevant details:
- Server A is running Unraid
- Server B is running Ubuntu
- Wireless devices include a Fedora laptop, an iPhone, and a Macbook Pro
- UniFi configuration is pretty straightforward. I have a few ports forwarded, a guest WiFi network (that none of these devices are on), a single default VLAN, and two simple "Allow LAN" firewall rules for Wireguard on the USG. No other firewall or routing config that I'm aware of.
If anyone has any thoughts at all on how to continue debugging, I would be immensely grateful! I suppose the next step would be to try to determine whether it's the networking equipment or the server itself that is responsible for the throttling, but I'm not sure how best to do that.
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 29
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Broke my dominant arm, will be out of work for a few months. Any advice or tips to adapt to this period of one-armed life?
I've got time now to browse tildes again, until I broke my arm last week, been busy with life otherwise. It's a nice thought to get time off work, but not a nice thought when most my hobbies...
I've got time now to browse tildes again, until I broke my arm last week, been busy with life otherwise.
It's a nice thought to get time off work, but not a nice thought when most my hobbies involve my hands.
Of course appreciate the support by my partner, family and friends. Very thankful I have them.
But with my independence floundering, I hate spending my days either sleeping or eating or mindlessly scrolling though social media.Looking to hear stories of broken limbs and how you've coped and adapted, and advice on physically navigating with one arm. Carrying a cup of tea and then needing to open a door, how to open a jar with one hand, cooking (or not cooking) and all else
30 votes -
Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
5 votes -
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
56 votes -
Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies
31 votes -
“The Long Season” is a brilliant Chinese 'Rust Belt' Noir
9 votes -
A partisan solution to partisan gerrymandering
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Tips for Docker security on a NAS?
How do you make sure that your Docker containers don't go rogue and start snooping around or contacting external servers that they shouldn't be talking to? Is there a network traffic monitoring...
How do you make sure that your Docker containers don't go rogue and start snooping around or contacting external servers that they shouldn't be talking to? Is there a network traffic monitoring program that I could use? Or a service that would notify me about vulnerabilities in containers that I have installed?
Some background:
Last year, I asked help setting up my new Synology NAS, and many of you wonderful people offered some really, really good advice. I have recently started to play around with Docker containers more, and I am a little uneasy about the idea that my NAS is home to my files, my own scripts, and Docker containers made by other people, and that it is always on and these containers have constant internet access. I don't have the time (or frankly the skills) to verify the contents of the containers beyond making sure that they come from reputable sources, but I would like to have a bit more peace of mind and make sure that things remain private and secure.
My setup at the moment is the following: I have a Synology DS923+ and I manage Docker containers with Synology's Container Manager, using docker compose files. I have so far put all containers into the same virtual network (perhaps something I need to think about), which is a separate IP range from my other devices, and has internet access through my DNS. I use Synology's DNS Server (for everything in my home network) and Reverse Proxy so that I can use local domain names and HTTPS. For HTTPS, I have made myself a certificate authority and created the necessary certificates and installed them on my devices. No ports are opened on the router and things like UPnP are turned off. I use Tailscale to access my home network when not at home. And while I have not yet done so, I have been considering setting up some firewall rules, for instance to restrict access to the DSM. I use 2FA for the NAS and its SSH is turned on only when I need to use it.
12 votes -
NGOs allowed to seize €2.9 million from Belgian government for failure to shelter asylum seekers
13 votes -
Russia has massed 500 tanks for an attack on Kupyansk. Thousands of Ukrainian drones await them.
31 votes -
Stop pretending you’re not rich [2017]
31 votes -
Table manners in the Ottoman Empire - Acem pilav
16 votes -
How nuclear power saved Armenia
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
21 votes -
Spotify has signed a new multiyear agreement with Joe Rogan, the host of one of the most popular and polarizing podcasts in the US
36 votes -
American airstrikes hit eighty-five targets at seven facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia used to attack US forces
39 votes -
Blood, guns, and broken scooters: Inside the chaotic rise and fall of Bird
15 votes -
Time loop stories aren't all 'Groundhog Day' rip-offs. Time loop stories aren't all 'Groundhog Day' rip-offs. Time loop stories aren't all...
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Tildes Book Club - Possibly changing the schedule?
A Couple of library users have said Project Hail Mary is going to take time to get ahold of. Edit Based on responses so far I propose the following schedule We will discuss Cloud Atlas in early...
A Couple of library users have said Project Hail Mary is going to take time to get ahold of.
Edit Based on responses so far I propose the following schedule
We will discuss Cloud Atlas in early March,
Piranesi in Mid April,
The Dispossessed in Late May
And Project Hail Mary at the end of June.Can those of you who use libraries, check our four books and see if there is one to start with that is less in demand? Please report back with hold times and we can see if a different schedule works better.
Books are the Dispossessed, Cloud Atlas, Project Hail Mary, Piranesi.
Let me know.
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